Taking an accessible and cross-linguistic approach, Understanding Child Language
Acquisition introduces readers to the most important research on child language acquisition …

Designing Speech for a Recipient. The roles of partner modeling, alignment and feedback
in so-called ‘simplified registers’ Page 1 John Benjamins Publishing Company Designing …

Children acquire language in conversation. This is where they are exposed to the
community language by more expert speakers. This exposure is effectively governed by …

Recent research has highlighted several areas where pragmatics plays a central role in the
process of acquiring a first language. In talking with their children, adults display their uses …

Language in Children provides a concise and basic introduction for students studying child
language acquisition for the first time. Starting from the first sounds a child produces, this …

This paper investigates whether there are changes in gesture rate when speakers of two
languages with different gesture rates (Turkish-high gesture; Dutch-low gesture) come into …

Conversational interaction supports and enables first language acquisition. From infancy on,
children hear language used by more expert speakers, and when they start to use some …

At what point do children move from literal uses of language to figurative ones, making use
of metonymy and metaphor, for example? In this paper, I explore the contributions of …

This paper addresses the theories of Eve Clark about how children learn word meanings in
western middle-class interactional contexts by examining child language data from a Tzeltal …

This paper addresses the conditions under which knowledge of situation-specific language
use should be part of a construction grammatical representation and under which it should …